Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct (128E) is a high-capacity multimodal language model from Meta, built on a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 128 experts and 17 billion active parameters per forward pass (400B total). It supports multi…
Model details →Meta: Llama 4 Maverick vs MiniMax: MiniMax-01
Meta: Llama 4 Maverick wins on 4 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
MiniMax-01 is a combines MiniMax-Text-01 for text generation and MiniMax-VL-01 for image understanding. It has 456 billion parameters, with 45.9 billion parameters activated per inference, and can handle a context of up to 4 million tokens.…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Meta: Llama 4 Maverick | MiniMax: MiniMax-01 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 1.0M | 1.0M | 🏆 Meta: Llama 4 Maverick |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.15 | $0.20 | 🏆 Meta: Llama 4 Maverick |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.60 | $1.10 | 🏆 Meta: Llama 4 Maverick |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | — | 🏆 Meta: Llama 4 Maverick |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | — | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Meta: Llama 4 Maverick better than MiniMax: MiniMax-01?
Meta: Llama 4 Maverick wins on 4 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Meta: Llama 4 Maverick and MiniMax: MiniMax-01?
Input: $0.15 vs $0.20 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.60 vs $1.10 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Meta: Llama 4 Maverick and MiniMax: MiniMax-01 support?
Meta: Llama 4 Maverick supports up to 1.0M tokens. MiniMax: MiniMax-01 supports up to 1.0M tokens.
Do both Meta: Llama 4 Maverick and MiniMax: MiniMax-01 support tool calling?
Meta: Llama 4 Maverick: yes. MiniMax: MiniMax-01: not advertised.